DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

The Remarkable Lushington Family

Reformers, Pre-Raphaelites, Positivists, and the Bloomsbury Group

David Taylor author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Lexington Books

Published:30th Jun '20

Should be back in stock very soon

The Remarkable Lushington Family cover

Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, this study spans three generations of the Lushington family. It investigates their personal histories through the themes of social, artistic, and cultural history. The author analyzes the Lushington family’s relationships with well-known figures like Lady Byron, Queen Caroline, and members of the Bloomsbury Group. Most importantly, this study examines Lushington family members’ roles within larger trends, including abolitionism, the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and Positivism.

As important members of the circles around Byron and the Romantics in the early nineteenth century, Pre-Raphaelite writers and artists in the Victorian period, and Virginia Woolf’s Bloomsbury world in the modernist age, several generations of the Lushington family played central roles in the story of British literature and culture. David Taylor charts this lost history and illuminates it with wit, scholarly intelligence, and a dedicated researcher’s passion. -- Margaret D. Stetz, University of Delaware
Without any need for fame, the Lushingtons knew and influenced an astonishing number of public figures and events throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. This is a fascinating book about a family with their fingers in every pie. -- Julian Fellowes, creator of “Downton Abbey”
At the core of this fascinating study are the riches of the Lushington archives. David Taylor has not only used this resource to the fullest, but has also followed the threads outwards into the life of the nation. He paints a vivid and engaging picture of a cultivated, well-connected, and affluent professional family of individuals who took full and creative part in all that they encountered. -- Gillian Sutherland, Newnham College

ISBN: 9781793617156

Dimensions: 240mm x 162mm x 30mm

Weight: 803g

390 pages